Who are these assholes. It has to be organized or they wouldn't be coming up with all the bullshit. Who heads it up. Most importantly why is anybody yielding to their moronic values.

I envision a bunch of pajama boys in their Mom's basement contributing to the organization. May be they get extra college credits for everything they contribute. It takes a lot of research to come up with the crap they puke out everyday.

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Originally posted by nosticks:
It has to be organized...

More to the point, institutionalized over generations, creating a "conventional wisdom" or common good. We see the results in the mob, those convinced they're The People.

The usual suspects, supported by the usual suspects.

"They" is people who are afraid of the mob ostracizing or shaming them publicly. The worst offenders are companies afraid of bad publicity bending to the will of the lowest common denominator.

someone else said it best ...

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Originally posted by nosticks:
assholes

Social media influencers, people who make a living finding and cancelling anyone they can. They target someone, expose them for wrong think and the mob who follows them trends it by reposting, liking and retweeting.

It is literally their job.

Karen

My theory?

They’re a bunch of Twitter addicted losers, mostly 20-somethings who have way too much time on their hands and have been brainwashed since elementary school to be offended at everything.

I suspect their actual numbers are far lower than we think they are, it’s just that social media amplifies them and they relish it.

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Originally posted by bigwagon:
The worst offenders are companies afraid of bad publicity bending to the will of the lowest common denominator.

This

Cancel culture has no legs if nobody listens. Unfortunately, current corporate culture is heavily infected by the marketing/branding departments, which means they respond to EVERYTHING, anything negative needs to be addressed and the belief that the 'brand' is more than just the product/services they provide. Many news services have become parroting platforms, amplifying what's found on social feeds further intensifying the spotlight of whatever the issue is.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
The usual suspects, supported by the usual suspects.

+1
At the lowest levels, dupes being used.

CC gets its origins from pop icons through social media platforms. “Canceling is a way to acknowledge that you don’t have to have the power to change structural inequality,” & “You don’t even have to have the power to change all of public sentiment. But as an individual, you can still have power beyond measure.

Cancel culture is a vital component of the war on western culture itself. Identity politics and critical theory are the primary vehicles of Marxism today, creating the necessary oppressor and victim classes, and “cancel culture” is the way of dealing with those who don’t toe the party line and are summarily cancelled as ________~ists without the need to use logic or debate.

This is a long article but well worth the read:

https://medium.com/@arkhanguel...society-3354194e1ef8

Someone here posted a Ted Talk I believe it was within the past 18-24 months that explained it very well.

The gist of what the person said was that we have become so advanced as a culture and nation that people essentially have become so used to having no hardships that they have to fabricate something to take a stand against.

I can see that as being true, we've made things SO easy that people become bored in a sense and HAVE to champion for something.

Back in Kindergarten certain kids closed their eyes, covered their ears and shrieked when they weren’t getting their way or were told to do something they didn’t want to do. Most found it didn’t work.

Some kids never got beyond that however and became general nuisances, for lack of a better term until some real nitwits decided that nuisance or not they got attention and idiots crave attention. With the willing connivance of the media who profit off of controversy they’ve nurtured it into an enduring fad and until it passes we’re pretty much fucked, again for lack of a better term.

Just my take on it, obviously.

Cancel culture I think is in itself an attack on western civilization. If you really want to delve into this topic I believe this is a good starting point. The author makes a point I had previously never even considered.

Link to article

“Get woke, go broke”, is a conservative meme about the cost of political correctness that has it the wrong way around. Brands don’t go broke because they get woke, they go woke because they’re going broke, and don’t know how to stop the slow but steady collapse of their business.


The big brands that go woke infuriate conservatives because, like Coke, Gillette, or Nike, they have a storied name that seems entwined with America and the success of capitalism. But it’s those old, familiar brands that go woke because their products and business models are dated. Virtue signaling is their way of adapting to a changing market without really innovating. Behind every big woke brand is a company slowly going broke and with no clue what to do about it.

The wokeness vocabulary joins the thesaurus of corporate buzzwords used by executives trying to hide from their investors that they don’t know what they’re doing. Making headlines for their wokeness changes the conversation from their business model to their politics. Touting a brand as socially responsible evades questions about its financial viability.

Take Coke, please.

Coca-Cola’s global sales fell 28% in the second quarter of 2020 from $10 billion to $7.15 billion. The corporate giant blamed the pandemic which had shuttered movie theaters and bars, and began cutting its small brands while concentrating on its big signature brands.

But Coke was struggling even long before the pandemic.

Despite all the international marketing, North America is still the biggest soda market. And the average American is down to drinking 40 gallons of soda from 50 gallons two decades ago. The shift was driven by the same demographic that tends to go woke, young white urban lefties, who became more likely to drink bottled water. Coke chased them by going into bottled water and vitamin drinks, but also by shifting away from a family brand once associated with Santa.

Santa and the polar bears reflected a Coke that was marketed to children. But fewer parents are comfortable with their children living off soda. That’s why one survey found that the number of children drinking over 3 cans of soda a day fell from 10% to 3.3%. The drop in soda consumption, once again, was heaviest among younger and wealthier urban white lefties.

The economic consequences of young white wealthy lefties dropping soda wasn’t just a sales issue. Wokes are a politically narcissistic demographic that legislates its tastes into law, pursuing the legalization of drugs, and bans on soda. Both drug legalization and soda bans were, as usual, done in the name of oppressed minorities, but had little impact on them.

Legal drugs are too expensive for minorities and the infamous soda taxes don’t work. But the soda industry remembers what happened to tobacco and other lifestyle habits that fell afoul of the cultural values of the new woke ruling class. That’s another reason why it went ‘woke’.

Banning soda from schools and taxing it in stores precedes the class action lawsuits and national legislative activities that would effectively eliminate sodas from the marketplace.

Coke isn’t just virtue signaling to prop up sales in a declining market: it’s also afraid.

And it should be. Bloomberg isn’t just fighting coal and guns, he’s also spending a fortune pushing his soda ban in cities and states around the country. The soda industry has ramped up spending to defend itself against everything from soda taxes to its links to slave labor. But it understands that the real threat is cultural as the new woke ruling class destroys the habits of the old America that it associates with conservative, working class, and flyover country.

That’s why cigarettes are a deadly menace, but pot is a civil rights crusade. The health issues are a pretext for a cultural revolution. And Coke went woke to convince the wealthy young urban lefties to incorporate its signature products into their lives by joining the cultural revolution.

The Left bet that if it could radicalize the children of the wealthy that Corporate America would bend the knee. And that’s exactly what happened. The radicals used their leverage over academia and the entertainment industry to create radical generations. But that radicalism was heavily concentrated among the Ivy League and the children of the elites who would become the corporate leaders and also be the consumers with the most disposable income.

Economics, like politics, proved to be downstream of the culture. Capturing the ecosystem at its base allowed the Left to take over the economy and turn some of the country’s biggest brands into megaphones for its propaganda. But these are corporate brands that have all the qualities of the ossified elites that have always been an easy target for the revolutions of the radicals.

Coke, like the average big woke brand, has a majority share of a declining market. It has limited growth potential within that market. Coca Cola’s fortunes are closely tied to movie theaters, which were in a catastrophic state of decline even before the pandemic, and to McDonald’s.

McDonald’s, like a lot of traditional fast food places, is experiencing its own slow decline. The clown joint, like Coke, tried to reinvent its brand as being about healthy food and leftist politics. Just like Coke, going ‘woke’ hasn’t stopped its decline, or the threat of the cultural Left regulating it out of business to protect minorities from the pernicious threat of its Happy Meals.

When McDonald’s brought in its new British CEO Steve Easterbrook, he promised to make it over as a “modern progressive burger company”. The company hired Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press secretary, to head communications. McDonald’s flipped its arches upside down to celebrate International Women’s Day. And then Easterbrook was forced out for allegedly having affairs with three female employees. Meanwhile the decline in foot traffic is still going on.

The Coca Cola Company meanwhile has a British CEO who pledged allegiance at Davos to a “new social contract” and an “economy that works for everyone”. He took over from the company’s previous Turkish CEO, and the Turkish CEO’s South African predecessor. The head of Coca Cola in North America is a Honduran who came out of its Latin American division.

The other thing about these iconic American brands is that they don’t have American leaders.

Coke won’t shut up about social justice and the evils of whiteness because that’s a better conversation than its failed portfolio of new brands, dumping its bottling operations, and its desperate efforts to refocus by launching a thousand different varieties of Coke aimed at the one lefty demographic that holds its future in the palms of its soft white manicured hands.

Otherwise its whole massive distribution network will be used for little more than moving orange juice, vitamin drinks, and milk around as soda and fast food go the way of cigarettes.

Coke is going woke because its future is broke. That’s true of most of the big woke brands. And the closer Coke gets to the cliff, the more hysterical its performative wokeness will become.

‘Wokening’ is a social disease of stale companies with stale brands whose products are overpriced and have fallen out of touch with the needs of many consumers. And the country’s consumer marketplace is dominated by these collapsing giants whose leaders are just marking time and cashing big checks while trying to co-opt the revolution threatening to destroy them.

European monarchs tried to co-opt leftist revolutions because they no longer had confidence in their own roles and had no idea what to do next. Coca Cola and the woke corporate giants share the same decadent sense of decline and their urban elites are selling out their rural base to appeal to the young radical generation to which their children and their social circle belong.

Wokeness is the consequence of a moral and economic brokenness among the nation’s elites. The Left conquered the corrupt infrastructure of a decaying political and economic system. Now it’s using that infrastructure to brainwash and suppress the country’s middle and working classes by lecturing them on their racism, and redefining them as domestic terrorists.

It’s not just Coke that went woke and broke: it’s the entire system that’s going broke.

It's infected the school board in Peoria IL:

https://www.pjstar.com/story/n...s-decide/4789376001/

Thomas Jefferson Middle School will be the first of six Peoria schools to be renamed

Andy Kravetz
Journal Star
March 23, 2021

PEORIA — There will no longer be a school named after the nation's third president, the Peoria Public Schools District board decided on Monday.

Members of the Board of Education voted to make Thomas Jefferson Primary School the first school to have its name changed due to its namesake's legacy on human rights and racism.

But there was no proposed name for the new school, nor was there a time frame set for when the change would come. Those will come at a later time, board members said.

In all, six schools will have their names changed. The others, in order, will be Harrison Community Learning Center, Washington Gifted Middle School, Roosevelt Magnet School, Lindbergh Middle School and Calvin Coolidge Middle School.

Some believe those historical figures have tainted legacies based upon their actions or views on human rights and equality that don't mesh well with modern thinking.

Board Vice President Gregory Wilson advocated for Thomas Jefferson to be the first to be changed, saying that his research into Jefferson's character merited it. He didn't discuss anything that he found, though, on Monday, saying that he would lay out his case when the actual renaming decision occurs.

Monday night's vote, he said, was just to pick the first school.

Anni Reinking said the board should lay out which schools would be changed and in which order, so no questions about preferential treatment or why schools were being chosen before others would occur.

At a meeting in September, the school board decided to consider renaming six schools that are named after people who have ties to racism. The board could opt to name the schools after prominent Peorians who were historically significant.

The precedent is there. In 2018, the board changed the name of Woodrow Wilson Primary School to Maude Saunders Primary School to honor the city's first Black doctor.

Potential honorees for those schools include civil rights activist C.T. Vivian and Annie Malone, the country’s first Black female millionaire, both from Peoria. The plan would be to solicit additional worthy candidates from the community.

Andy Kravetz can be reached at 686-3283 or akravetz@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @andykravetz.

They are people who have no principles, no honor, no loyalty, know nothing about American history, have never faced adversity, have never been hungry, have no work ethic, always got the trophy, threw tantrums in public when toddlers without consequences, and never grew up, and damn sure never served anything but themselves. You know, pussies.

My favorite theory is the large influence of Artificial Intelligence working
In ways untracked, unidentified, and unknown....until this very moment.

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Originally posted by JohnCourage:
Social media influencers, people who make a living finding and cancelling anyone they can. They target someone, expose them for wrong think and the mob who follows them trends it by reposting, liking and retweeting.

It is literally their job.

I think this is the answer.

This could not be possible without social media influence, where even the most obscure nobody, with a twitter account, can make a big impact upon the 'herd mentality.'

One example that comes to mind is the 'Avengers: Endgame actress who cancelled Ken Jennings' when they considered him as a replacement host for Jeopardy! She dug back and found a tweet from five freaking years ago, where he said something that MIGHT be considered offensive if you were to try hard enough. The internet erupted in lame 'outrage,' and for a week, it was front-page news. I have no idea who this woman was, and even after googling her name, I still have no idea. She was 'woman in park' or something like that in the movie.

BUT, for a week or two, her name was all over social media, the story 'went viral,' and people all over the place got their panties in a bind over something some guy posted five freaking years ago.

I think if all these 'discoveries' (such as 'racist' imagery in Dr Seuss books) were strictly anonymous, they would not happen nearly as much, if at all. A lot of it is just morons trying to get their 15 minutes of fame at the expense of others. I think it's also a trend of silencing those with conservative values (note, they never seem to go against dem icons, liberal establishments, etc). . .

To me, if you had to go back five freaking years to find something offensive that I posted, I would consider that REALLY good. I probably post something stupid at least every week, if not more often. . .

Cancel culture is simple a Lynch Mob where one yells "hang 'em" and the other say "go get 'em boys".
Nothing more.